Education of renewable energy and environmental technology: development of a multi-level learning programme

It is expected that with increasing pressures of fossil fuel scarcity and adverse environmental impacts of their use, more number of countries would make efforts towards providing renewable energy and environmental education. In the last two decades some efforts have been made to provide energy and environmental education. But most of these efforts have been made in the area of postgraduate level courses. Introducing relevant inputs into the undergraduate level courses in universities have not been taken seriously. The author has developed a multi-level course entitled "Renewable Energy Technology". This course can be used for the purpose of teaching renewable energy and environmental technology at undergraduate level of electrical engineering courses as well as bachelor of technology courses. This paper presents the course summary and course outline as well as method of teaching, method of assessment and their relation to course objectives.